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inside freshman of the year morkrt serving the slippery rock community for 42 years vol 51 no 12 friday april 29 1977 austere co-op budgets hit student groups photo by k goerwger students who voted in the recent sg referendum passed a resolution to donate approximately 2,700 to cas by an overwhelming 770 to 14 by helene mahoney the cooperative activities board released its 1977-78 rec ommended budget allocations last week with a total of 387,123 distributed among 54 campus or ganizations for next year the board received budget re quests totaling 611,615.78 but explained that many organiza tions were drastically cut this year the college expects a 25 per cent decrease in enrollment for the 1977-78 academic year which means a 25 per cent de crease in general service fee monies the college union was granted the largest amount by the co-op board 83,316 this is 41,001 less than they requested the co cas donation approved by janice graham last week sr students voted overwhelmingly to give 50 cents per student enrolled here to the commonwealth association of students cas to help alleviate its financial difficulties the referendum which was held april 20 and 21 had a final tally of 770 people voting yes to the donation and 14 people voting no the contribution will come out of the excess general service fee money that is left over at the end of each year said sg presi dent joe archut every year there is a carryover he said and sg anticipates there will be enough to cover the cas dona tion at 50 cents per student archut estimates that the total will be close to 2,700 several of the other state col leges have contributed to cas re cently after they revealed at their last convention that they did not have enough money to function effectively throughout the summer edinboro and millersville state colleges both contributed 500 and blooms burg state college donated 800 to the student lobby in harris burg shippensburg's sg donated 750 to cas with a pledge to match what the harrisburg of fice raises itself east strouds burg's local cas chapter also contributed 250 without the aid of their sg according to cas officials they will use the money to lobby against the proposed tuition hikes presently facing the state colleges according to michael sommers cas executive direc tor the increase will be even worse than previously antici pated the democratic caucus of the state senate met on april 20 he said and endorsed a proposal to give the state college system 170 million the system will need at least 190 million to con tinue operating at its present level sommers said the 20 million difference will have to come out of the students pock ets and this will amount to about 250 more per student he said sommers pointed out that a nationwide survey out of stan ford university showed that for every 100 increase in college costs there is a four per cent de cline in college enrollment for minority students this number increases to six per cent a 250 tuition increase would be a ten per cent drop in enroll ment or 8,000 students unable to return to school due to financial difficulties sommers added that this is without the room and board increases which are ex pected to vary from 50 to 150 we could stop an increase of this kind sommers said if the students would assist us if the students do not then there will be a major increase in fees that will ruin the system and kill public higher education in pennsylva nia op office received the second largest sum 79,065 at the co-op meeting it was explained that the office needed the increased funding due to the hiring of a business manager and added expenses for next year's co-op cars other organizations whose re quests were cut substantially were the football team going from a requested 30,809.22 to 5,953 a cut of 24,856 and the gym suit service which received a suggested budget 7,600 under their requisition men's athletics were chopped 72,412.34 from their requested 137,110.34 while women's ath letics lost 21,135.30 out of their 72,231.30 requisition some discussion took place at the meeting concerning the cheerleaders budget carol mat teson a professor in the physical education dept questioned the contribution of cheerleaders to the college she wondered wheth er cheerleaders actually did any thing for the school or whether they were just doing it for them selves last year the cheerleaders were allocated 600 this year co-op recommended that they re ceived 1,325 the men's basketball team was cut down from 11,341 to 4 043 while the soccer team was given a recommendation 1,811 less than what they received last year women's spc-ts lost heavily in basketball with a recommenda tion being made by the board of 2,466 less than last year ice hockey was granted a rec ommended budget for next year which is 1,000 over what they received for this year next year they will have 1,740 to work with co-op granted the men's lacrosse club 1,893 1,200 more than last year's allocation men's intramurals did not re ceive a recommended budget for next year as the board felt they had a sufficient carryover of funds to last through next year last year they received 4,000 women's intramurals which are run by the women's recrea tion association wra received 6,487 for next year an increase from the 5,000 they received last year the rocket dropped from last year's allocation from 14,079 to 13,950 while ginger hill the campus literary magazine was granted 2,500 815 less than what they requested ). residence life submitted a budget request for 14,000 but was granted no budget recom mendation by co-op other orga nizations not receiving rec ommendations were alpha beta alpha the athletic training club c.e.c council for exceptional children the college relation office and the sr gospel choir dramatics were cut from what they received last year but there is a carryover from this year the art department was only cut 655 from their request for 3,655 appeals will be heard by sg this monday in the mpr of the cu at 7 p.m any organization with questions concerning their budget should attend the meet ing decaprio leaves board with mixed feelings shapp appoints two new trustees shapiro stays by bob burrell frank gagliardo and jack r arthurs were appointed to the board of trustees and dr char lotte shapiro was reappointed by the governor according to don ald o oesterling chairman of the board oesterling and eugene decaprio will not be returning to the board in a letter to the governor oesterling explained that he did not want to be reappointed be cause it had become increasingly difficult for him to fulfill the re sponsibilities he added that al though he is fond of sr his job as deputy secretary of environ mental resources has made it too tiring gagliardo said that he does not see a conflict of interest because his brother is the director of rest dence life at the college he said he is interested in community af fairs and that he feels his role is to supervise appointments and see that everything is run by the college rules because he does not know very much about the current investi gations gagliardo did not want to comment on them however he feels if a situation arises that warrants investigation it should be investigated at one time gagliardo served as the president of the fraternal order of police he also belongs to the police youth bureau and kids inc and is employed in the juvenile office in new castle shapiro a principal in an ele mentary school also believes that if something goes wrong it should be investigated she feels anyone would lake this position shapiro said she wants to serve on the board because she has a strong interest in sh and in its students arthurs was unavail able for comment by janet e williams when eugene decaprio learned that he was not going to be reappointed to the board of trustees he greeted the news with mixed emotions i have a sense that i am leav ing unfinished business deca prio said referring to the numerous investigations that have been conducted on campus over the past year there are still some problems to be re solved decaprio said that he feels a sense of relief that he will be leaving this position that recent ly has dominated so much of his time decaprio was appointed to the board five years ago and at that time he thought he would just be attending the meetings four times per year it was supposed to be more of an honorary posi tion he stated his term and the term of board chairman donald oester ling will be finished after the may 9 meeting see related story this page at the march 17 board meet ing decaprio gave what amounted to be a farewell ad dress as he was expecting not to be reappointed i did know it was coming to an end he ex plained that he knew his name had to go through his party chair man in lawrence county and he had an indication that it wasn't going through decaprio has been critical of the shapp administration for dragging its feet on the investi gations i suppose they're just as glad i'm not back he said it was a great disappointment to me the way the shapp adminis tration handled everything here 1 was also critical of the hand wringing head washing show that donovan put on he was re ferring to patricia donovan chief counsel to the dept of edu cation who appeared at the march 17 meeting to differenti ate between serious and non-seri ous crimes generally decaprio said he felt that this past year was disas trous in terms of what the prob lems have done to the morale on campus however it has been a year in which certain key beliefs about how officials should be have in public life has been reaf firmed he added more students join to endorse roberts the associated residence hall students arhs black action society bas and the panhellen ic council have joined together to endorse acting president james n roberts for the position of permanent college president these organizations join sg wnft and the inter fraternity council who have also issued statements of support for rob erts arhs which represents ap proximately 2,000 dormitory stu dents based their decision upon the experiences the have had in dealing with roberts on dormito ry issues we have found him to be a very sincere student-ori ented individual he has earned out trust and he has our support said william price arhs presi dent in a memo to the presided tial search committee bas which represents the total black population of sh sup ported roberts on the grounds oiuinued on pg 4 lol 4

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inside freshman of the year morkrt serving the slippery rock community for 42 years vol 51 no 12 friday april 29 1977 austere co-op budgets hit student groups photo by k goerwger students who voted in the recent sg referendum passed a resolution to donate approximately 2,700 to cas by an overwhelming 770 to 14 by helene mahoney the cooperative activities board released its 1977-78 rec ommended budget allocations last week with a total of 387,123 distributed among 54 campus or ganizations for next year the board received budget re quests totaling 611,615.78 but explained that many organiza tions were drastically cut this year the college expects a 25 per cent decrease in enrollment for the 1977-78 academic year which means a 25 per cent de crease in general service fee monies the college union was granted the largest amount by the co-op board 83,316 this is 41,001 less than they requested the co cas donation approved by janice graham last week sr students voted overwhelmingly to give 50 cents per student enrolled here to the commonwealth association of students cas to help alleviate its financial difficulties the referendum which was held april 20 and 21 had a final tally of 770 people voting yes to the donation and 14 people voting no the contribution will come out of the excess general service fee money that is left over at the end of each year said sg presi dent joe archut every year there is a carryover he said and sg anticipates there will be enough to cover the cas dona tion at 50 cents per student archut estimates that the total will be close to 2,700 several of the other state col leges have contributed to cas re cently after they revealed at their last convention that they did not have enough money to function effectively throughout the summer edinboro and millersville state colleges both contributed 500 and blooms burg state college donated 800 to the student lobby in harris burg shippensburg's sg donated 750 to cas with a pledge to match what the harrisburg of fice raises itself east strouds burg's local cas chapter also contributed 250 without the aid of their sg according to cas officials they will use the money to lobby against the proposed tuition hikes presently facing the state colleges according to michael sommers cas executive direc tor the increase will be even worse than previously antici pated the democratic caucus of the state senate met on april 20 he said and endorsed a proposal to give the state college system 170 million the system will need at least 190 million to con tinue operating at its present level sommers said the 20 million difference will have to come out of the students pock ets and this will amount to about 250 more per student he said sommers pointed out that a nationwide survey out of stan ford university showed that for every 100 increase in college costs there is a four per cent de cline in college enrollment for minority students this number increases to six per cent a 250 tuition increase would be a ten per cent drop in enroll ment or 8,000 students unable to return to school due to financial difficulties sommers added that this is without the room and board increases which are ex pected to vary from 50 to 150 we could stop an increase of this kind sommers said if the students would assist us if the students do not then there will be a major increase in fees that will ruin the system and kill public higher education in pennsylva nia op office received the second largest sum 79,065 at the co-op meeting it was explained that the office needed the increased funding due to the hiring of a business manager and added expenses for next year's co-op cars other organizations whose re quests were cut substantially were the football team going from a requested 30,809.22 to 5,953 a cut of 24,856 and the gym suit service which received a suggested budget 7,600 under their requisition men's athletics were chopped 72,412.34 from their requested 137,110.34 while women's ath letics lost 21,135.30 out of their 72,231.30 requisition some discussion took place at the meeting concerning the cheerleaders budget carol mat teson a professor in the physical education dept questioned the contribution of cheerleaders to the college she wondered wheth er cheerleaders actually did any thing for the school or whether they were just doing it for them selves last year the cheerleaders were allocated 600 this year co-op recommended that they re ceived 1,325 the men's basketball team was cut down from 11,341 to 4 043 while the soccer team was given a recommendation 1,811 less than what they received last year women's spc-ts lost heavily in basketball with a recommenda tion being made by the board of 2,466 less than last year ice hockey was granted a rec ommended budget for next year which is 1,000 over what they received for this year next year they will have 1,740 to work with co-op granted the men's lacrosse club 1,893 1,200 more than last year's allocation men's intramurals did not re ceive a recommended budget for next year as the board felt they had a sufficient carryover of funds to last through next year last year they received 4,000 women's intramurals which are run by the women's recrea tion association wra received 6,487 for next year an increase from the 5,000 they received last year the rocket dropped from last year's allocation from 14,079 to 13,950 while ginger hill the campus literary magazine was granted 2,500 815 less than what they requested ). residence life submitted a budget request for 14,000 but was granted no budget recom mendation by co-op other orga nizations not receiving rec ommendations were alpha beta alpha the athletic training club c.e.c council for exceptional children the college relation office and the sr gospel choir dramatics were cut from what they received last year but there is a carryover from this year the art department was only cut 655 from their request for 3,655 appeals will be heard by sg this monday in the mpr of the cu at 7 p.m any organization with questions concerning their budget should attend the meet ing decaprio leaves board with mixed feelings shapp appoints two new trustees shapiro stays by bob burrell frank gagliardo and jack r arthurs were appointed to the board of trustees and dr char lotte shapiro was reappointed by the governor according to don ald o oesterling chairman of the board oesterling and eugene decaprio will not be returning to the board in a letter to the governor oesterling explained that he did not want to be reappointed be cause it had become increasingly difficult for him to fulfill the re sponsibilities he added that al though he is fond of sr his job as deputy secretary of environ mental resources has made it too tiring gagliardo said that he does not see a conflict of interest because his brother is the director of rest dence life at the college he said he is interested in community af fairs and that he feels his role is to supervise appointments and see that everything is run by the college rules because he does not know very much about the current investi gations gagliardo did not want to comment on them however he feels if a situation arises that warrants investigation it should be investigated at one time gagliardo served as the president of the fraternal order of police he also belongs to the police youth bureau and kids inc and is employed in the juvenile office in new castle shapiro a principal in an ele mentary school also believes that if something goes wrong it should be investigated she feels anyone would lake this position shapiro said she wants to serve on the board because she has a strong interest in sh and in its students arthurs was unavail able for comment by janet e williams when eugene decaprio learned that he was not going to be reappointed to the board of trustees he greeted the news with mixed emotions i have a sense that i am leav ing unfinished business deca prio said referring to the numerous investigations that have been conducted on campus over the past year there are still some problems to be re solved decaprio said that he feels a sense of relief that he will be leaving this position that recent ly has dominated so much of his time decaprio was appointed to the board five years ago and at that time he thought he would just be attending the meetings four times per year it was supposed to be more of an honorary posi tion he stated his term and the term of board chairman donald oester ling will be finished after the may 9 meeting see related story this page at the march 17 board meet ing decaprio gave what amounted to be a farewell ad dress as he was expecting not to be reappointed i did know it was coming to an end he ex plained that he knew his name had to go through his party chair man in lawrence county and he had an indication that it wasn't going through decaprio has been critical of the shapp administration for dragging its feet on the investi gations i suppose they're just as glad i'm not back he said it was a great disappointment to me the way the shapp adminis tration handled everything here 1 was also critical of the hand wringing head washing show that donovan put on he was re ferring to patricia donovan chief counsel to the dept of edu cation who appeared at the march 17 meeting to differenti ate between serious and non-seri ous crimes generally decaprio said he felt that this past year was disas trous in terms of what the prob lems have done to the morale on campus however it has been a year in which certain key beliefs about how officials should be have in public life has been reaf firmed he added more students join to endorse roberts the associated residence hall students arhs black action society bas and the panhellen ic council have joined together to endorse acting president james n roberts for the position of permanent college president these organizations join sg wnft and the inter fraternity council who have also issued statements of support for rob erts arhs which represents ap proximately 2,000 dormitory stu dents based their decision upon the experiences the have had in dealing with roberts on dormito ry issues we have found him to be a very sincere student-ori ented individual he has earned out trust and he has our support said william price arhs presi dent in a memo to the presided tial search committee bas which represents the total black population of sh sup ported roberts on the grounds oiuinued on pg 4 lol 4